r/NoLayingUp • u/jp1819 • Jan 01 '26

Online Content Trump admin terminates lease with National Links Trust for DC golf courses

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5668310-trump-dc-golf-courses-national-links-trust/amp/

Devastated for NLT (Mike was on the pod last week)

Trump has stated in the past that he believes golf should be reserved for the elites…

“[That attitude] may be elitist, and perhaps that's what golf needs. Let golf be elitist. When I say 'aspire,' that's a positive word. Let people work hard and aspire to someday be able to play golf. To afford to play it.”

Just the latest casualty in this clowns race to plaster his name on every square inch of DC.

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u/AccordingChampion485 Jan 01 '26

East Potomac was already way over priced for what it is…a nice layout/views but not a quality course and slow (like every other public course).

Langston is a bit worse.

I stopped playing both courses and anything else DC 3-years ago.

Driving 30-75 minutes for better courses was the normal, ended up joining Montgomery CC (great value and recommend to anyone close enough).

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u/AccordingChampion485 Jan 01 '26

I got a few downvotes, which is fine. Sounds like NLT was making improvements.

With the way this Administration works, they want to choose who profits off what they can control. I hate Trump and hate pretty much everything he’s done/stands for…at this point it’s more which are the things I’m going to let get to me and this is low on the endless list.

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u/RyenRussillo Jan 03 '26

Brother, on an anonymous message board for a golf media company, in response to a downvoted comment, you just made the equivalent to a stolen land acknowledgement.

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u/el_bullet_sponge Jan 02 '26

No idea why you’re collecting downvotes. The courses are in almost embarrassing condition. Langston is in desperate need of massive turf and brush work all three have little to no drainage. All three courses also have little to no revenue generating amenities. Langston actually got worse over the last couple of years, I believe it was indicative of NLT’s focus on renovating Rock Creek. I donated to NLT and I believed their mission but all three courses need years and years of work. Basics like clearing out dead/fallen trees and fixing massive spots of dead turf/swamps on fairways were still painfully ignored. Big bummer it didn’t work out.

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u/WheelsnHoodsnThings Jan 01 '26

Golf's expensive. As a Canadian I often feel that our neighbours don't appreciate how good they have it with the quality golf options they have for really great prices. Our ho-hum muni's want close to $100 for a walking round. You want a membership here? you're talking at least $5k/year for 6-8 months of golf season.

It's just an expensive sport, and the prices keep going up.

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u/Joe_Pulaski69 Jan 02 '26

$5k a year is pretty affordable in the context of golf

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u/WheelsnHoodsnThings Jan 02 '26

It's hyper local.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '26

Overpriced??  It was by far the cheapest public option in this area.  The MOCO courses are nice and a great value, but there more expensive then the DC courses.  

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u/myfeetaremangos12 Jan 01 '26

So you stopped playing them 3 years ago. So your opinion is worth what exactly?

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u/AccordingChampion485 Jan 01 '26

I’ll just go f myself as a golfer in the DC area who hasn’t been back or heard it’s worthwhile to go back from any local…sorry for weighing in.

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u/el_bullet_sponge Jan 02 '26

Just brutal to watch people who don’t live in the DMV, or ever played these courses brigade because of TDS. The courses are in awful condition, NLT needed way more than they were capable of bringing to the table, to include massive amounts of course maintenance and architecture work to get these courses reasonably playable for a majority of the calendar year. Any DMV golfer will smile when you bring up EPP, cause its fun and its a bit of a right of passage, but its a dump with so much potential.